When things are too quiet at my house I start to worry…
On one particular day last week, things were quiet…and trouble was brewing!
Having grown up babysittng and always working with children, I am aware of most of the things that children are capable of. And, as my girls have each gotten older, I have waited for each one of them to cut their own hair. Don’t get me wrong, I have tried mightily to avoid it – threats, teaching, admonition, hiding (the scissors) – but alas, it has happened with three out of four so far.
The first didn’t happen until my oldest daughter was 5 years old. I thought for sure that we were going to skip that one, she was old enough to know better! Hah, one quite day – snip, snip – bangs were gone, nearly to the scalp! She was tired of the hair in her eyes and didn’t want to wear a bow.
The second offense came about a year later. Apparently, all of my careful admonition did not thwart my eldest daughter, at least not until she was partially through another bang episode on her younger sister. Half way through that quite time in the house, the revelation hit her that she should let her mother know about her new ideas for her sister’s hair. We were left with half a bang doo and some missing snips from the beautiful long side locks (one side) of my second daughter’s hair.
And, just last week, when a portion of our household was too quiet, that same eldest daughter came shrieking from the playroom. Her proclamation announcing the dreaded news that my 2 – almost 3- 
year old had cut her hair. Admittedly, this was at least a more appropriate age for such behaviour. However, she had cut a LOT of hair, and she HAD the cutest most adorable whispy curls…gone, snipped, fallen. My little girl had quietly snipped them off and laid them nicely in a pink tub (no mess- Thank you!!). I loved those little curls. Fortunately, she did leave some hair and she doesn’t look all that bad. Thank goodness she inherited her daddy’s great curly hair and the damage is rather hard to see. It just looks like we gave her a pixie girl cut.
So, we survived one more hair cutting episode in our home. My third daughter has so far spared the family of this expected childhood event. And, I so hope that we have had our share. But, realistically….I know better! Let’s not forget – I have 2 two year olds in the house right now. I will be lucky if I don’t get one of those “quiet” haircuts!
My neighbor comes over to visit the other day with her little 2 y/o girl. We’re hanging out in the kitchen, that super cool place where all mom’s “hang out”. My neighbor starts looking intently at the fruit bowl on my table. I have these very realistic looking fruits that I got at Target arranged in the bowl. She picks one up to study it closer and then just busts out in a chuckle. My fake piece of fruit has a bite mark in it! Then I see her looking at the other fruits. “Don’t bother”, I said, “they all have little bites in them, every last one of them!” - “That’s Hilarious!”